8/25/16

Karel and I believe that our coaching company is more than a business.
We coach a team of amazing, goal-oriented, hard working and focused athletes.

Each athlete welcomes us into his/her life and we feel incredibly lucky to be part of a personal athletic journey. For most of our athletes, we do not spend just one season training for races but instead, we have many athletes who have worked with us for several years.

If you are a triathlete, we know that you are in an individual sport, but we want you to be part of something that is bigger than yourself.

As a Trimarni athlete, you are not just one athlete. Every athlete brings something very special to our team, which is also your triathlon family.

We know that training can be unmotivating when you are always by yourself and sometimes your family doesn't "get you". We also know that it can be tough to dig through those low moments in a race when you do not know anyone out on the race course (who doesn't love cheers from friends?).

That is why we feel that it is important to provide our Trimarni athletes with several opportunities to train and race with Trimarni teammates. Training and racing with your teammates brings out the best version of you on race day as you can always dig a little deeper, stay a bit more mentally strong and have a lot more fun when you are with others, versus when you are all by yourself.

If you are interested in joining the 2017 Trimarni triathlon coaching team, we will open our coaching application in the next 2 weeks (before September 10th). Stay tuned - I will announce on my social media channels and on this blog, when you can apply for coaching.

We officially start 2017 Trimarni coaching in December - however some situations may require that we begin your coaching service in November.

Our coaching application is not used to help us decipher between fast or slow athletes. We coach ALL fitness levels of athletes and we specialize in endurance triathlon coaching (half and full Ironman). Our coaching application helps us understand you as an athlete but also what you need from a coach/training plan. It's important to us that Trimarni is the right fit for you as we believe in a healthy coach/athlete relationship.

In the mean time, we have selected tentative dates for our training camps and key Trimarni races for next year so that you can start planning your 2017 season. While it is not required that you attend a Trimarni race, we strongly encourage you to experience what it is like to race with your teammates and have full access to your coaches, before, during and after the race. Additionally, we strongly advise attending a Trimarni camp in 2017 so that your coaches can see you in action to assess your individual strengths and weaknesses, to help you improve your swim/bike/run/skills and to train with your like-minded teammates, who will help you stretch your individual limits.

Email Marni to discuss possible dates and pricing to book your private camp in advance.

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TRIMARNI GROUP TRAINING CAMPS

All Trimarni camps are open to the public. You do not have to be a Trimarni athlete to attend a Trimarni camp. If you work with another coach, we would be glad to speak to your coach before/after the camp to ensure that your needs are met. We also welcome other coaches (who are athletes) to attend our camps to learn from us.

There will always be a max limit at our camps for safety reasons and to ensure the best possible one-on-one experience for our campers. Trimarni coaching athletes will not only receive a camp discount but will also get first priority for camp sign-up. Expect all Trimarni camps to sell out quickly so be sure to purchase when they come available, early this fall.

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Type of camp: Skill-focused triathlon camp

Length of camp: 3 days

Dates (tentative): March 17-19th

The focus of this camp will be on nutrition and swim, bike, run skills. Campers will have three days to learn from coaches, in a group environment, to improve swimming, cycling and running skills. All fitness levels invited. There will also be discussion on race tactics/execution.

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Type of camp: Advanced triathlon camp

Length of camp: 4.5 days

Dates (tentative): March 22-26th

The focus of this camp will be to help athletes absorb a good amount of training stress over 4.5 days, to catapult fitness in the early part of the season. There will be focus on skills, nutrition and race tactics as athletes train together, with challenging workouts, to help athletes step outside their comfort zone. This is an experienced camp, please email coaches to see if this is the right camp for you.

Location: Greenville, SC

Type of camp: Skill-focused triathlon camp

Length of camp: 3 days

Dates (tentative): May 26-28th

The focus of this camp will be on nutrition and swim, bike, run skills. Campers will have three days to learn from coaches, in a group environment, to improve swimming, cycling and running skills. All fitness levels invited.

There will also be discussion on race tactics/execution.

Location: Greenville, SC

Type of camp: Advanced triathlon camp

Length of camp: 4.5 days

Dates (tentative): June 22-26th

The focus of this camp will be to help athletes absorb a good amount of training stress in the early part of the racing season. There will be an endurance theme to this camp, with focus on skills, nutrition and race specific workouts. Athletes will have the opportunity to work on swim, bike and run skills but there will be a heavy emphasis on cycling. This is an experienced camp, please email coaches to see if this is the right camp for you.

Location: Greenville, SC

Type of camp: Endurance focused triathlon camp

Length of camp: 4.5 days

Dates (tentative): August 30st – Sept 3rd

The focus of this camp will be to help athletes absorb a good amount of training stress over 4.5 days, to prepare athletes for a late season Ironman (or half ironman). There will be focus on skills, nutrition and race specific workouts. While this isn’t an advanced camp, athletes should be resilient, healthy and fit for this camp and should endurance that this is an endurance-focused camp.

2017 TRIMARNI KEY RACES:

(Dates will be confirmed when the race organizer updates website with 2017 dates)

8/23/16

Well, I'm about a week late on this post due to a very slow internet connection in our IMMT rental home combined with looking after and helping 7 Trimarni athletes (+1 former Trimarni athlete) who raced Ironman Mont Tremblant.

As we pack our bags and say good-bye to this beautiful, cute, triathlon-supporting town within Québec, Canada, we can look back on race day and confidently say that all our athletes had a very successful race.....despite 9+ hours of rain.

All of the Trimarni athletes accomplished what they came here to do.....Finish Ironman Mont Tremblant.

There was a lot of determination, focus, grit, hard work and perseverance out on the race course for 140.6 miles. With rough waters during the swim, pouring rain and cool weather temps on the bike and on and off rain during the rain, alongside a challenging bike and run course which can to be difficult to master in terms of pacing and execution, we could not be more proud of our athletes. And for me, as a spectator in Mont Tremblant, I absolutely loved watching my athletes in action.

I'll be sharing more about the race, including Karel's race recap of the race, but for now, I will leave you with the exciting news that Karel is heading to Kona for the 2nd year in a row after placing 2nd in the 40-44 age group.

This all comes just 8 weeks after a PR race at IM Austria (9:13, 9th place).Now Karel gets to do this all again in 6 weeks in Hawaii for the Ironman World Championship.

What it looks like to dig deep and run the fastest amateur male run split of the day.

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Here are a few pictures (in no particular order) from the race to show our amazing athletes in action.Despite the suffering, there was no shortage of smiles on the faces of the Trimarni athletes!

Adam on the bike

Adam on the run - on his way to run a 3:43 PR marathon

Go Adam!

Adam finishing

Next day celebrating.

Post race celebrating

Freddy - run for the beer!

Go Erin!

Looking good Freddy!

Paparazzi - there's Freddy!

Post race food - spectators are just as hungry as the athletes!

Some of the Trimarni athletes with coach Karel at the awards

Go Jeff and Trimarni nutrition athlete Adam (who just finished his first Ironman without GI issues)

Go Justine.....6 more weeks until you get to do this again in Kona!

Justine before going through the IM motions before Kona in 6 weeks (qualified at IM Maryland)

Karel starting the bike...before the rain came down

Go Katja! A smile all day!

Great work Katja!

Karel on a mission.

Karel in 5th place off the bike - time to run down his competition.

Karel on loop 2 of the run, now in 3rd place.

Karel off the bike in the first 1/2 mile of the run. I told him he was in 5th place - time to commit!

Wet and cold but happy for our athletes! Thank you Taylor for being awesome all day!

Cheering for Karel after loop 1 of the run. Keeping him going despite the world of hurt that Karel was experiencing in his body.

Congrats Adam for finishing your 2nd IM in 11:08! You may live in flat FL but you trained smart to execute on a very challenging and hilly race course.

Cheering squad out on the race course! So grateful for all the Trimarni spectators who braved the rain to cheer for the athletes.

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Welcome to Trimarni!

The Trimarni mission is to help athletes reach performance goals without compromising health.
Marni has a great understanding of physiology of the human body during exercise and how food affects a body in motion.
She focuses her time helping triathletes and runners learn how to maximize fitness while keeping the body in good health. Marni is well educated in the areas of sport nutrition (for training and racing) and triathlon coaching, exercise physiology and strength training, for athletes of all fitness levels. She specializes in endurance training and sport nutrition, with a great understanding of the metabolic, immune and hormonal stress that occurs when training for a long distance event. Behind every great athlete is a well planned diet - she also helps athletes create great daily nutrition habits to support consistent training.
Marni is passionate about helping athletes train smarter in order to reach performance, body composition and health goals faster.
Karel is an experienced RETUL bike fitter and bike mechanic and is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to all things bikes and cycling.
Marni and Karel coach a team of triathletes alongside providing services to triathletes, cyclists and runners.

About us

Marni holds a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology and she is a Board Certified Sport Dietitian who specializes in coaching and sport nutrition for endurance athletes. Marni is passionate about helping athletes of all levels learn how to fuel and eat to maximize performance, while keeping the body healthy. She is a 11x Ironman finisher including 4 Ironman World Championship finishes. In, 2015, Karel and Marni both competed in the 2015 IM World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Marni holds an Ironman PR of 10:06 (2016 Ironman Austria), where she had the fastest overall female swim time (57.06) and placed 2nd AG (30-34), finishing fastest amateur female American and 4th amateur female (10th overall female). Marni is a well-known writer and contributes frequently to Ironman, Triathlete Mag, USAT and can be found quoted in other publications like Runner's World, Shape, Women's Running, Fitness and Men's Health. Marni is enjoys public speaking and working one-on-one with athletes at camps and clinics. Marni is a long-time lacto-ovo vegetarian (since the age of 10) as she loves animals.

Karel is an accomplished Cat 1 cyclist turned Ironman triathlete. He was the former general manager of the Trek Bicycle store in Jacksonville, FL and now works at Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition as a coach and RETUL bike fit expert. Karel has successfully completed 6 Ironman distance triathlons and has qualified for the Ironman World Championship twice (in 2014 at IMWI and in 2016 at IMMT). He holds an Ironman PR of 9:13 (2016 IM Austria) and at 2016 Ironman Mont Tremblant, he clocked the fastest amateur male run split (3:08) of the day.

When Marni and Karel are not working, they can be found cooking/eating, exploring Greenville, SC or spending time with their four-legged furry child Campy.